New Words A Student Publication of Reading Works
December 2020| VOL. 5, NO. 5
Looking for Sameness in Words By Lee
Basic Literacy, 3rd year (Answers for Vol. 5, No.4 puzzle.) Homophones: words that sound alike but have different spellings and definitions. 1.
Draw a line that connects the word in List 1 to one that sounds like it in List 2. (They sound alike, but their spelling and meanings are different)
List 1
List 2
Road
lode
Soar
Ore
Load
bore
Oar
rode
Boar
lone
Loan
sore
Homophones: road/rode
2. Underline the spelling pattern that is the same each word in List 1. 3. Circle the two letters of a spelling pattern seen in List 2.
Covid-19 Granddaughter’s Visit by S.T.
Basic Literacy, 2nd year A Grandmother’s Love
y son and granddaughter came to see us. After not being able to see them for three months, it was a surprise. I had no idea they were coming. It was nice to see them. My granddaughter was always asking me to show her how to cook. On the day I was making fried chicken and candied sweet potatoes, she got out her pen and pad and wrote step by step just what I was doing. She asked, “Grandmother, how much flour, salt, pepper and paprika?” As always, I just put it in the palm of my hand. I said, “A palm of this and a palm of that. You just get the feel after a few times just how much you need.” The next day she walked through breakfast writing each thing I made. It was nice to know she was interested in learning about cooking. We had a great talk about what she would be doing some day. She asked if I would show her how to cook. Next year she will spend a week with me during the summer and I’m going to give her cooking lessons. We will make a lot of things. She asked me to teach her how to bake. I am looking forward to doing this with her. It is always good for young people to spend time with grandparents because we can teach them so much about life. They will experience some of the things we have been through. This will help them when that time comes in their lives. I do hope they will listen.
The Beauty of Winter By Asalia
English Second Language, 4th year All seasons have something special to share with us. When the autumn season goes away, it’s time to say hello to the winter season. Sometimes winter season comes with a beautiful view. Pine trees and mountains are covered with a white, soft mantle, leaving layers of snowflakes around us that are a delight for our eyes. When the night falls and the moonlight reflects on the snow, thousands of crystals appear to create a special magical moment of peace and beautiful reflections.
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Acoma
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Op-Eds
Basic Litera
The Photo Club went to Sky City, Acoma Pueblo. It's almost 1,000 years old. T electricity.
Hope for a Tomorrow By S.T.
Basic Literacy, 2nd year Today is hard for me to think of our tomorrows; We are living in very sad times. People are doing so many things like marching, killing and just doing bad things all around us. What are we as good caring people, like myself and my family, going to do? Just stay close and pray.
November 2020
The girl's picture was taken in the old town, but her family lives in a more modern village below. Photo credit: Lee
by Mireya
My Ga
English Second Language, 1st year I am happy this month because we meet as a family making a dinner and giving thanks to God for all his blessings. Although these are very difficult times; the pandemic, elections are very stressful, but God is with us.
I Want Something to be Different
The oldest pueblo, Aco Photo credit: Lee
By N
English Second La
I love to grow plants in my garden. I have some vegetables – four tomato pla two or three small cucumbers, three green chili pepper plants (the peppers are v bean plant, and one plant that has small eggplants. I also have two mint plants an I have some grass and flowers. I have twelve or thirteen rosebushes, but one d My garden makes me happy!
By Christopher
Basic Literacy, 2nd year I could go to the mall. I could go to restaurants. I want to play Special Olympics again. I want to see my girlfriend. I want to see my cousin. I want something to be different.
N.P.: ...one plant has small eggplants. Photo credit: N.P.
A red pepper plant. Photo credit: N.P.
Pueblo
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Lee
acy, 3rd year
The pueblo is on a sandstone mesa. Acoma has no running water, but they have
Science How Is Rain Produced? By Leon
Hi-SET, 1st year ater vaporizes and rises into the sky, forming as clouds when it cools and condenses. Within the cloud, water droplets form. When they become too heavy to stay suspended, they fall back to the earth.
The Five Layers of the Earth’s Atmosphere
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by Leon
Hi-SET, 1st year
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N.P.
anguage, 4th year
ants with medium size tomatoes that we are now eating, three small watermelons, very small and spicy and I cook them in soup), one red pepper plant, one green nd some cilantro, but the cilantro is old now and tastes too strong. died. They are red, yellow, and mixed colors. I also have about ten sunflowers.
Troposphere - 10 km/6.2 miles above sea (or ground) level - Air is warmer at the bottom and colder at the top. Air pressure and density of gases decrease with altitude. Stratosphere - 50 km/31 miles above ground - Air is thin (especially higher up) and water vapor is scarce. Waves and tides carrying energy from the troposphere flow upward here, influencing the flow of air. Near the bottom, polar stratospheric clouds form near the poles in winter, causing the formation of holes in the ozone layer. Mesosphere - 85km/53 miles above ground - Temperature decreases with height. Meteors are usually vaporized, gases are more dense and are a mix of atoms and molecules formed by turbulence in the atmosphere. Thermosphere - about between 500-1000 km/311-621 miles above ground - Temperature is typically 200°C (360°F) around daytime. It’s basically considered outer space due to its intensely low air density. At high altitudes gases are broken down into separate chemical elements. These molecules can also be broken down by x-ray photons from the sun. The thermosphere absorbs the sun’s radiation. Charged particles colliding with atoms and molecules create colorful photons of aurora lights. Exosphere - over 1,000 km/620 miles above ground - air is basically nonexistent. Molecules escape into space.
N.P.: I have twelve or thirteen rosebushes. Photo credit: N.P.
Thermosphere—Charged particles colliding with atoms and molecules create colorful photons of aurora lights.
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Pangea By Leon
Hi-SET, 1st year illions of years ago, Pangea consisted of all of the continents rolled into one and was considered as a supercontinent. Over time, however, the continent began to break apart piece by piece and divide. These smaller pieces of Pangea would soon migrate elsewhere and become the continents we know today. The most likely reason for the separated formations of land derives from the influence of plate tectonics. Plate tectonics is when land starts to separate or merge with other pieces of land due to the crust being pushed around by the earth’s core. Elements of the mantle rise due to the intense temperature of the earth’s core, causing the crust and lithosphere to shift and move around and by proxy shifting the surface into different directions. Once the mantle is cooled it is once again pulled in by the earth’s core and the cycle continues to repeat. The theory of Pangea from a scientist named Alfred Wegener who tried to formulate the origins of the continent’s geography. The name “Pangea” comes from the ancient greek language and translates to “whole land”. When you take a closer look, each continent looks like a puzzle piece that could somehow fit onto another continent. At first Wegener’s ideas were thought to be ludicrous, but with the advancement of geographic study, Wegener had more reason and support for his claim.
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